Janae Says...

I get a lot of offers for credit cards in the mail. I should actually follow through one of these days on removing myself from the listing for them. Especially because I paid the entire balance of one of my credit cards off today! Yeah baby! I opened the letter, and it said something similar to what all of them say: "Janae, It's clear that you realize the importance of staying on track with your finances. But you need credit for those unexpected expenses." No, Capital One. Do not try to persuade me to your evil ways with your lies and deception. For I am doing what Dave Ramsey told me to and am building up my savings! You should save up  for those unexpected expenses. In fact, if you're saving up for emergencies, then you are expecting them, and are totally prepared. Emergency funds, y'all. Emergency funds .

I said in my last blog that you should stay tuned for topics including my plunge into Twitter, pool conversations, and a dumpster dive. I thought I might as well put all of it into one blog in order to not bombard the blogosphere with separate entries for each mini-story. The first. My dear friend Aaron pushed me on probably three separate occasions to get a Twitter. I thought Twitter was kind of silly. It's just a simpler version of Facebook, which I already have. Why join yet another social network? Well, party people, I found some very funny Twitter Folks that I needed to follow. Among them: A-Town , Depressed Darth , and Sarah Nicole . I figured that if so many cool people were already in this social realm, I may as well grace them all with my presence. It's simple. It's fun. I have enjoyed my time there so far. Oh right, and if you want to, you can follow me ! Within a day of having a Twitter account, I had several absurd things occur in my life, which produced th

When I first started making smoothies at the beginning of the year, I was limited in my vision. I used frozen mixed fruit from Costco, yogurt, half a banana, and some orange juice. And it was delicious. Every time. Then I started to switch it up. Instead of orange juice, I wanted to try Banana Colada Fuze. Oh. That made my smoothies even better. Then I started switching up the yogurts. Vanilla is great. But so is raspberry. And peach. And lots of other kinds! My smoothies just started getting exciting! So when they had a 10/$10 deal at Smith's on Fuze drinks a couple months ago, I got lots of different kinds. Some of them have not been so good. Banana Colada remains my favorite. But today! Today I tried Strawberry Guava. Oh man. My smoothie is awesome. I can't even type this efficiently because I keep stopping to drink it. FYI: The Peach Mango one is also good. Tropical Punch is OK. And I've got lots more to try. Life has been good lately! I finished Starg

On my way back from Temple Square today, I had intended to get on the freeway at 400 South. But, what's this? Only carpools can get on the freeway right here? Freaking A. I kept driving and turned left onto 900 West. After heading south for a couple of minutes, a brown SUV to my right honks the horn. I look at him. A below-average, trashy looking white boy. Making kissy faces at me. "What the?!" I thought. I was so taken aback that I made a "What the?" face at him, and immediately looked back at the road. Seconds later, he honked again. "..." I looked to my right again. (Careful, readers, it's PG-13 from here on out) This time, his tongue was out of his mouth. He was moving his tongue in front of his top lip rapidly from left to right. His hands were still on the wheel. But I knew what he was insinuating. Then I felt completely disgusted. I wanted to flip him off, but having an inkling of the type of person he was, I thought that

One day toward the beginning of June, a young man instant messaged me on a dating website. I only saw one picture of him. I responded to him. We had a pleasant conversation, where he actually asked prying questions that began to get on my nerves. Nevertheless, he seemed to be worth meeting. We exchanged phone numbers. We became Facebook friends. I saw more of his pictures, which were disappointing, to say the least. A few days after that, he starts trying to set up a meeting time with me for when I returned to Salt Lake from California. I figured it'd be harmless to meet, even if I didn't find him very attractive. We decided to meet for breakfast. I would have to drive up to his general vicinity, but he'd buy breakfast. I can handle that. I'll drive for free food. During this brief conversation, though, he seemed confused as to "which one" I was. He asked for a picture. I sent him one. He said, "You look pretty. And slender? ;)" This was the

Parking to walk around Temple Square? - $2 Purchasing an 11x17 photo of my favorite being? - $1 Purchasing an 11x17 photo of my favorite temple? - $1 Purchasing frames for those two photos at Wal-Mart? - $8 Having pictures of Christ and the temple hanging up at my apartment? - Priceless.

My coworker posted these on Google+ today. I read them in this order, but you should probably do the opposite. Date an Illiterate Girl  - I held my breath through this whole thing, pretty much... A heads up on the language. Either don't read it, or get over it. Date a Girl who Reads  - Also awesome. My day is complete. It's not even noon. /suckerforwords

I watched The Goonies a lot as a kid. I always thought Brand was cute. And I've developed a huge crush on Josh Brolin in many recent roles (like  No Country ,  Jonah Hex , etc.). I just now learned that Brand was played by Josh Brolin. No wonder I have the hots for him. He's been lurking in the subconscious memory of my cherished childhood films.

I despise apartment hunting. I despise moving. It seems like no place has all of the qualities I desire in an apartment. And it's not like I'm being picky here, people. We're talking about: - Maybe 600 square feet (room for my furniture) - Basic kitchen amenities (fridge, stove/oven, dishwasher, cupboard space) - Heat and A/C options - A bathroom that's not inside the bedroom (male guests, if you've got to pee, won't you please take a walk through my untidy private quarters where there may or may not be undergarments lying around? sorry about that) - A closet in the bedroom (I think it's sad that I have to put this on here) - Washer and dryer hookups (or at least onsite laundry) - Covered parking (street parking? are you serious?) - Plugins for cable TV and a phone jack for DSL internet I mean, I can do without overhead lighting. I can deal with limited cupboard space. I can sacrifice extra storage space and closets. I'll even manage to

So remember when the people at the beach stationed themselves WAY too close to me , when there was plenty of room? How about the time on the 4th of July when Jonny and I had a spot on the grass and a group sat literally one foot away from us? Oh right I didn't tell you about that. Well, it happened. And believe it or not, it was Jonny who was in awe over it first. And we moved very quickly.  Now how about at the gym? Twice this week I have had someone get on the elliptical right next to me when there were about seven of them open to my right, and about 11 open of them in the row behind the row I was in. Really, people? All these open elliptical machines, and you want to be right next to me? Why?  Don't worry that the guy who did that to me today completely reeked, too. Thanks. I appreciate that. Double my fun.  Maybe I just have an excessive need for personal space, since nobody else seems to be fazed by the fact that they're close enough to smell my breath when there&

Before I can start on a focus post, I just have to say: 72 hours till Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 comes out! I am so, so excited! On to the meat of this post... I was out with a guy on Saturday night. We saw Thor (really entertaining, by the way. So much better than Green Lantern). Then we went to In-N-Out. Then I wanted a cupcake from the Sweet Tooth Fairy. We walked in, and my date saw somebody he knew, and he had a very minor (and totally understandable) freak out. Apparently this girl who served in his same mission participated in some weird stalker behavior after the mission. She commented anonymously on his blog, 'liked' all of his Facebook profile pictures (then unfriended herself), and did numerous other bizarre things. They did not interact with each other. Did not say hello. Did not look at each other. He was cursing his luck under his breath at seeing this supposedly insane girl at this location and at that totally inopportune moment. We wen

That's funny, I didn't realize that going on dates equaled playing games. Here I thought that you date someone to get to know them and spend time with them. And then if you're not interested at some point, you don't go out on dates anymore. I can see where someone might hesitate with this interpretation. However, dates do not have to cost a lot of money (or any at all). Here are some things I would like to do: - Play games (any except card games. e.g. Yahtzee, movie trivia, word games, Monopoly, etc.) - Walk around temple square - Walk around downtown Salt Lake - Drive up the canyon - Have a bonfire (maybe cook food or make s'mores) - Have a picnic at a park - Watch a movie (at home or at the theater--regular or dollar theater) - Get a shake - Bake something together - Share music - Go to a pawn shop - Go to a museum (preferably an art museum) - Go on a hike (preferably an easy one) - Go to the pool and swim/tan/talk - Go boating - Sight-see

Note the amazing irony in the fact that for America's Independence Day, I put the blog title in Spanish. I am so funny. Laugh with me. Fine, don't. Yesterday was pretty uneventful, really. I'm used to being in Provo where I can head to the Freedom Festival to look at booths and eat delicious food and whatnot. Plus I think I've missed one Stadium of Fire in the last 15 years or something. This year was one of those years. And not that I think Stadium of Fire is ever super awesome, it's still something to do, and it's fun, and it's tradition. So I kind of missed it. Anyway, yesterday I went to the gym. Then I showered. Then I went to the store. Then I made cookies (only 6 of them--which I burned, sadly. I refrigerated the rest of the dough). Then I went to Traverse Mountain to get free food and hang out with my family at their local park. It was mostly for kids--water slides and bounce houses and whatnot. I did see my friend Nephi there, so that was n